AMBLEWAY Wildest hikes

Lower Echo Lake & Upper Echo Lake via Park Drive

2 mi · ▲ 83 ft · 42 min

Lower Echo Lake & Upper Echo Lake via Park Drive is a 2-mile out-and-back near Mountainside, NJ. The route passes Upper Echo Lake, Lower Echo Lake and Lower Echo Lake. It is mostly level, with 83 ft of elevation gain. It scores 0/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: paved and peopled.

Elevation

0 mi95 – 157 ft2.2 mi

Getting there

Trailhead: Unnamed 40.67112, -74.35007
Nearest town Mountainside, NJ
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Lower Echo Lake & Upper Echo Lake via Park Drive

2 mi · ▲ 83 ft · 42 min

Elevation 96–158 ft

Out & Back

Trailhead: 40.67112, -74.35007

Weather Sep 5: sunrise 6:29 AM · sunset 7:25 PM

  1. Start at the trailhead, heading E.
  2. 0.5 miPass Upper Echo Lake.
  3. 50 ftPass Lower Echo Lake.
  4. 250 ftTurn left, heading NW.
  5. 350 ftSharp right, heading N.
  6. 0.1 miPass Lower Echo Lake.
  7. 0.3 miReach Lower Echo Lake, then turn around and head back the way you came.
  8. 0.4 miSharp left, heading W.
  9. 400 ftTurn right, heading S.
  10. 0.5 miArrive back at the trailhead.

Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.

Trail map, photos and weather for this hike: www.ambleway.com/hikes/lower-echo-lake-out-back

Trail surface

2% paved98% unspecified

Weather

Sunrise 6:29 AMSunset 7:25 PM

Hikes near Mountainside, New Jersey